Patrick Jost, right, makes a move during his fifth-round game with Nathan Klemm during the Sheboygan County Class Championships in late February at Acuity Headquarters in Sheboygan.

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If you see a car around town with a "Chess Nut" vanity plate, it's likely Ellen Wanek's.

Wanek, 61, devotes much of her retired life to the game of chess. She's a coach at four Sheboygan schools, she privately teaches about 10 students every week and she helps out at many of the area's weekend chess tournaments.